Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attired in a flashy crimson shirt and surrounded by security police, Apolo Milton Obote, the President of Uganda, was making his way through a cheering mob. He was leaving Kampala's Lugogo Stadium, where his ruling People's Congress had just approved his "Common Man's Charter," which was designed to turn his country into a socialist one-party state. While the army band blared out the party song, "Uganda Is Marching Forward," three shots rang out. Obote, 44, a onetime herdboy who led his country (pop. 8,000,000) to independence seven years ago, clutched...
...boycott, which was initiated a' Berkeley, is to put enough economic pressure on Pan Am to get the airline to carry no more military personnel or cargo to Southeast Asia and to Southeast Asia and to refuse to "charter its equipment to the Department of Defense for any purpose other than to bring home the troops," a spokesman for CCAS said...
...aegis of Los Angeles Cosa Nostra Chief Nicolo Licata, now serving a jail sentence for contempt, and Frank Milano. Milano's son, Pete, worked behind the scenes to speed along the organizing effort. The two Nicks obtained 15 signatures from interested dealers and then applied for a charter to create Local 711 of the International Office and Professional Employees Union (O.P.E.U...
...Vegas for several years. Last summer the union's chief counsel, Cleveland Attorney Joseph Finley, was approached by a "highly reputable" friend, Lawyer Robert Duvin. Duvin introduced Nardi and Francis as legitimate labor organizers who could unionize the dealers for O.P.E.U. if they could get a charter. Supported by Duvin's high recommendation, Nardi and Francis were quickly approved and received their charter from O.P.E.U. Although their initial organizing attempts were resisted by some casino operators, the scheme seemed likely to succeed...
...fare feud stems from the rising threat of cut-rate charter flights, which last year carried 14% of the passengers who flew the Atlantic. The only way for the scheduled lines to stall the charters is to reduce their own rates. A major impediment is that many of the state-run European carriers, which dominate the International Air Transport Association, have traditionally argued for higher fares. The U.S. lines have long pressed for reduced rates, figuring that lower fares would attract more customers and ultimately increase profits. But the U.S. lines are a minority within the IATA cartel. Another complicating...